Prensa y novela

narración en Walter Benjamin y Manuel Puig - Press and novel: narration in Walter Benjamin and Manuel Puig

Abstract

In this work we will propose to think of the work of Manuel Puig as a minor literature, in the terms in which Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari conceive the work of Franz Kafka, which differs from high literature and the paradigms of institutionalized Letters. Bearing in mind that Puig introduces orality in his writings with important reminiscences to the artisan character of the Benjaminian classical narrator and, however, as Walter Benjamin proposes once reproducibility develops, it is no longer possible to maintain the traces of narration. oral and it is pertinent to abandon the desire for an individualized narration. At the same time that the technical innovations that stress the relationship between narration and information, the paradigmatic case being the press and serial literature, generate new narrative structures that Puig modifies in order to dismantle the linearity of the story and generate estrangement in the readers. Benjamin's considerations about the context in which Charles Baudelaire wrote and Edgar Allan Poe's use of the press in his detective stories give rise to a writing that misses literature, but at the same time becomes something else foreign to it. the codes of the non-literary materials used.